Picture swapping bizarreness

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Adam Crowley

Hello boys and girls

I have a client who recently gave a presentation he'd checked and rehearsed
as thoroughly as one might expect. When it came to present (PowerPoint XP,
about 100 slides) the pictures on some slides had swapped places with
others.
Now I know what you're thinking...some trigger happy muppet has accidentally
moved some slides around, easily done, particularly on a laptop. But no.
All the slides were in the correct place (I have compared the original and
the presented copy) but some slides had the wrong picture on them (either a
small image or a background). And every picture that has been magically
displaced appears somewhere else in the presentation - in place of another.

My only thought is something to do with copied and pasted pictures. This
presenter uses slides and content from various other files and the material
in this file undoubtedly originates from a variety of sources. I have no
way of knowing whether the file was saved since being checked and printed,
though I suspect it was.

Just thought I'd see if anyone had seen anything like this or had any
clues..?
 
Hi Adam,

Yup. Seen it and experienced it. My occurrence happened when I had a lot of
images in a presentation, and I compressed them more than once. I saved and
when it was reopened, they were all mixed up.


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[...] the pictures on some slides had swapped places with
others. [...]

My only thought is something to do with copied and pasted pictures. This
presenter uses slides and content from various other files and the material
in this file undoubtedly originates from a variety of sources. I have no
way of knowing whether the file was saved since being checked and printed,
though I suspect it was.
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Hi Adam,

as far as I have experienced, these "jumping" pictures are caused by a
combination of Copy&Paste and Compression and AutoCorrect-Options. In "Tools
| AutoCorrect-Options | AutoFormat as you type" DISable the last option.
(For more things to disable, see:
http://www.rdpslides.com/pptfaq/FAQ00034.htm)

If you're not sure, HOW a picture was inserted into a slide, cut it and
re-insert it with "Edit | Paste Special", preferably use PNG file format.
This may take some time, but when using slides of unknown origin, you'll be
on the safe side (and the file will become smaller).

Kind regards,
Ute
 
Adam,

It's a known problem though luckily not one that occurs too often.

When you copy/paste images within PowerPoint, PPT doesn't literally make
copies, it makes pointers to the original data. That keeps file sizes down.
But if the pointers get scrambled. From Glenn's description, it sounds as
though compression might have some effect on it.

Just for grins, have you tried round-tripping the presentation to HTML and back
(particularly if you've got a copy of it that's still working right)?

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